Align to right “left triangle” in menu element

Question

I build HTML/CSS/JS menu and want to align arrow to the right to point that this element is submenu.

My problem that in Firefox triangle (\"▶\" sign) shown on next line

Answer 1

getting rid of "white-space: nowrap" helps

Answer 2

Finally I solve problem:

<div class="container">
  Top level menu (hover on me)
  <div class="box">
    <div class="submenu">
      <div class="name">Long submenu 1</div>
      <div class="box">        
        <a href="#">Item 1</a>
        <a href="#">Item 2</a>
      </div>
    </div>
    <a href="#">Item 1 1 1</a>
    <a href="#">Item 2</a>
    <div class="submenu">
      <div class="name">Very long submenu 2</div>
      <div class="box">        
        <a href="#">Item 1</a>
        <a href="#">Item 2</a>
        <a href="#">Item 3</a>
      </div>
    </div>
    <a href="#">Item 1</a>
    <a href="#">Item 2</a>
  </div>
</div>

and:

.container {
    display: inline-block;
    background: gold;
    position: relative;
}
.box { display: none; }
.container:hover > .box {
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 100%;
}
.container .submenu {
  position: relative;
}
.container .submenu:hover > .box {
  display: block;
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 100%;
}

a, .name {
  white-space: nowrap;
  display: block;
}
.name {
  padding-right: 1.2em;
  position: relative;
}
.name:after {
  content: "▶";
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 100%;
  margin-left: -1em;
}

Essential part is to make element with triangle as block and position: relative and reserve space for triangle by padding-right: -1.2em and position triangle by position: absolute after element and move back triangle by margin-left: -1em.